Aldous Huxley Quotes
1894 – 1963
English writer, author of "Brave New World".
25 quotesAbout Aldous Huxley on Wikipedia
“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
“What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.”
“A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane.”
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
“One unscrupulous distortion of the truth tends to beget other and opposite distortions.”
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
“It is only by poets that the life of any epoch can be synthesized.”
“To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.”
“There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.”
“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body.”
“Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.”
“Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.”
“Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.”
“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen.”
